Reading books may contribute to re-forming your character, your intelligence, knowledge and understanding, emotional and ethical responses, and your creative capacities in positive ways. Can gaming do this? If it can, then it would not necessarily be mere entertainment, killing time or distraction. — Janus
Reading books may contribute to re-forming your character, your intelligence, knowledge and understanding, emotional and ethical responses, and your creative capacities in positive ways. Can gaming do this? If it can, then it would not necessarily be mere entertainment, killing time or distraction. — Janus
We agree — Janus
It strikes me that there is nothing unique about video games. — Bitter Crank
Can gaming do this? — Janus
Of course we should all work harder for the common good and naturally we don't. — Bitter Crank
problems of the persons more than problems of the gadgets, though the gadgets aid and abet the obsessive. — Bitter Crank
it may be there fault, to some degree, to not guard against addiction once they know they are liable to be hooked — Bitter Crank
Oh. Now I feel like I'm preaching to the choir. Playing devil's advocate? In any case, this reply is here for the sake of others who might disagree - mistakenly, of course. — Sapientia
You should ideally be using books, movies, visual novels, video games, really any form of art as inspiration for your creations or life, not just for pure entertainment. — yatagarasu
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